Embree accepts Dodgers contract

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Jun 8, 2012 at 12:01 AMJul 26, 2012 at 9:38 AM

Corey Embree of Moberly accepted a contract Thursday to play professional baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Corey Embree of Moberly accepted a contract Thursday to play professional baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
He is expected to leave sometime next week to join the organization at Phoenix, Ariz. where he will participate in an evaluation mini camp for rookies prior to the start of the summer league season that begins June 21.
The Dodgers have a spring training facility and minor league ball team at Camelback Ranch located at Glendale, Ariz., which is a suburb of Phoenix.
Players will participate in a series of workouts during the three-to-four day mini-camp to learn where the organization may assign them for summer ball.
The Dodgers use this site for both their rookie instructional team and one of its Class A minor league programs that most newcomers from the Major League Baseball Draft are assigned as they work to improve their skills while playing in the Arizona League.
The AZL minor league involves 13 rookie teams affiliated with different MLB organizations that are located within less than about a 3-hour drive from one another. Season begins June 21 and ends in early August.
Embree was drafted in the 38th round in this year’s draft and was the 1,166th overall pick.
The 19-year old graduate of Moberly High School (2011) completed his freshman year at Maple Woods Community College of Kansas City where he played centerfield for the Monarchs under head coach Marty Kilgore.
Embree batted .451 this past season, which was 10th best in the country among NJCAA Division I players.
Scott Little, a Midwest professional scout with the LA Dodgers, followed Embree’s progress since his senior year in high school when he batted .683 and petitioned the Dodgers organization to draft him.